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Sunnyside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lancaster

Tract 42071013301 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 4,320 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 42071013301 covers Sunnyside in Lancaster in Pennsylvania. Home to 4,320 residents, it scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 52% of US census tracts.

About 28% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 7% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,522 a month while the average household earns $85,332 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 4% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 3% Owners 96%
Tract context
Occupied units1,697
Renter share4.2%
SVI overall0.23
Poverty rate8.8%
Median income$85,332

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Sunnyside
Very High
Within parent city
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#16 of 21 tracts In Lancaster
Low
Within county
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#25 of 116 tracts In Lancaster County
High
Within state
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#1,207 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lancaster and the region

Centroid at 40.0183, -76.2801 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sunnyside scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lancaster
4.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.2
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
8.8% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,522 rent vs county FMR
5.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lancaster
5.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lancaster
9.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lancaster
6.9

How Sunnyside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sunnyside risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.54.5This tracttract 013301Lancaster: 4.14.1Lancasterparent cityCounty: 3.43.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 23

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 182Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 15.97%Avg annual filing rate
  • 18.0%Peak (2005)
  • 28Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 420710133012000: 22 filings (14.29/100 renter HHs)2001: 19 filings (12.34/100 renter HHs)2002: 27 filings (17.54/100 renter HHs)2003: 28 filings (18.19/100 renter HHs)2004: 25 filings (16.24/100 renter HHs)2005: 33 filings (17.97/100 renter HHs)2006: 28 filings (15.25/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 27% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Sunnyside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.3/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lancaster eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Lancaster County average of 5.3 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 3% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 23rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 42071013301

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42071013301?

Census tract 42071013301 in the Sunnyside neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 42071013301?

Median gross rent is $1,522/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42071013301?

8.8% of residents in tract 42071013301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,320.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42071013301?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 23th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 36th, household 47th, minority 19th, housing 13th.
Q5

Is tract 42071013301 considered part of Sunnyside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42071013301 fall within Sunnyside (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42071013301?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 182 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42071013301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.97% of renter households, peaking at 18.0% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42071013301 compare to Lancaster overall?

Tract 42071013301 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Lancaster at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lancaster eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42071013301 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 3% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Lancaster ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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